ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,432,432, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to MAGNA ELECTRONICS SWEDEN AB (Vargarda, Sweden).

"Driver monitoring system" was invented by Marius Zamfir (Iasi, Romania) and Adrian Cacu (Iasi, Romania).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vision module (1) for monitoring a driver (20) of vehicle (3) is provided in the monitoring system (15). A first vision module support (4) and a second vision module support (5) is provided. The first vision module supports (4, 5) has at least two slots (6, 7, 8, 9) and the second vision module support has at least two slots (6a, 7a, 8a, 9a,) for holding the vision module (4, 5) between the first and the second...